This Moment Where Little Andrew And Ashley Find Used Cigarettes.... Something Something Foreshadowing

antis with their "toxic yaoi" that goes no further than enemies to lovers

What if these two kissed?

No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!

i'll never get over how badly people who want to come up with ideas of how tcoaal can be "better" or "fixed" miss the points of anything.

like the other day on twitter i see this thing like. "THIS INCEST SHIT SUUUCKS IT SHOULD JUST BE ABOUT TWO SIBLINGS WHO JUST EAT ALL THE PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE" and it's like. oooh who’s an edgy boy yes you are oooh what a hot take your statements are so controversial what an edgy boy

and the other day like, some of my friends show me this tcoaal rewrite that involves a big sister Ashley (i only saw this post once and don't remember it well). different mom that's an entirely different shade of abusive and a whole different kind of trauma put into Ashley who wants to be a boxer now in defiance of how she was raised and i'm like... why does this have to be a tcoaal rewrite? you've created a genuinely really interesting concept... just tweak it to remove tcoaal from it's DNA entirely and you have this super solid original story idea. and i'm just here like... it's just so annoying. you have this fantastic idea for something original, why do you need to bill it as what makes canon better?

like, it's fine. it's fine to not like the incest. as much asi like to make fun of antis, there ARE genuine fans of this game that aren't really big on coffincest but like everything else- but at least THEY still acknowledge the incest is an important part of the story's DNA and it's themes, so even if they're not in it to ship it they're still here to enjoy the story.

it's always so boggling to me. granted, i've always hated fix fics- i'm totally fine with radical AUs and rewrites, but maybe it's just my personal gripes of "haha i FIXED canon it's better now >:)" like... i can appreciate a fix fic like "oh this character didn't die bc i think it's dumb" but then these are people who fundamentally don't understand what they're trying to "fix."

and like i know. antis are antis. antis always do this. but it's like... man. why can't people just say they don't like a thing bc it's not their cup of tea instead of wanting to "fix" it in a way that ruins it???

the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

Valentines

protagonist: wow, i sure hope nobody says anything strange today

insufferable twink antagonist in chapter two:

I don't normally watch YouTube analysis videos about tcoaal because most of them are, quite honestly, trashy and superficial but I just watched one and

From all the bs I've heard about the game and/or the siblings, this is the one (i'm paraphrasing):

"Ashley doesn't have self-worth issues, she doesn't struggle with self-image. She just pretends in order to manipulate Andrew with that."

BOY, DID WE PLAY THE SAME GAME???? Literally all the complicated shit between Andrew and Ashley starts because of her insecurities and fears (there's stuff regarding Andrew but you know what I mean)

What about the lady from 302 and the outcome????

I literally had to pause the video when I heard that. More reasons why I only consume stuff about tcoaal on Tumblr.

me when that one couple doomed by the narrative say i love you without saying i love you (i will be crying over them for several months)